The Remembrance Verses
Passage 2
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Where nature's laws threatenend the weary;
When food, water, even air itself ran low,
It took just a command, a word, a smile,
From the General to light the way.
He was comfort, stem courage, compassion,
To our sires as he led them from the fires
That grew and fed on those they left behind.
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 2, Verse 14, Lines 18-24[1]
Passage 3
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The just deaths of the traitors frightened some
There among the darkness and alien stars.
A few lost heart and began with aquavering resolve
To question the Great Father's plan.
With stern compassion he spoke and all was revealed;
How their destiny was the Hidden Hope
Of all mankind and how their sons' sons
Would one day return to the Inner Spheres
Bringing back the enlightenment to the Star League
To those unfortunates they had left behind.
Such was their right, such is our legacy of blood.
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 3, Verse 22, Lines 1-11[2]
Passage 8
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The rebels, heeding neither strenght nor sense,
Cowardly ambushed noble DeChevilier.
Although he fight like a lion, he died
And with his death came the clouds, and reason fled
Like a winter sun's feeble evening light
Above hopeless Eden and wicked Babylon.
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 8, Verse 36, Lines 51-56[3]
Passage 67
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Five, Nicholas proclaimed, was the foundation
Upon which our true society was to be built.
Laborers to till the land, to do the tasks:
They shall have our undying gratitude,
For they are the muscle behind us all.
Merchants to buy and sell with fairness:
They shall have our commerce and respect,
For they are the bones upon which we are built.
Technicians to build and fix the machines:
They shall have our admiration,
For they are the fingers with which we grasp life.
Scientists to create and discover:
They shall have our awe and our attention,
For they are the mind of our society.
And above all, the Warriors who protect.
They shall have our cooperation and worship,
For they are the blood and soul of us all.
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 67, Verse 26, Lines 21-37[4]
Passage 98
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From Kerensky's Stars came the Eight Hundred
Beneath a banner of Truth and Righteous Light
To lift up those who had suffered and to smite down
With fearful vengeance those who had ruled
In the name of Vanity or Greed.
The thunder of their BattleMech's feet, the lightning
From their weapons, and the blood spilled in their name
Created the Clan Spirit, the forge upon which
We have fashioned ourselves to be the weapon
Of the resurrected Star League,
Honed to a razor's edge by the Trials,
By the Remembrance, and by the Words
Of the Great Kerenskys, our sires, our savior.
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 98, Verse 24, Lines 8-20[5]
Passage 167
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And Minaka Widowmaker spoke,
"I claime the Bloodname Vordermark;
It was my mother's and my mother's fathers,
It is mine by association and blood pride."
The Council was stunned and outraged
By her lack of respect for the Clan ways.
Then the ilKhan rose and spoke wise words.
"Such a claim is not freely granted, Minaka.
Although your blood may cry out Vordermark,
It is your muscle and mind that will make it so.
Remember the Rede of our past, Widowmaker,
And do not ask words to win what the trial decides.
If strong, you will win the right.
But do justice to our future
By remembering our past, young one.
Those are my words, that is my judgement"
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-- The Remembrance, Passage 167, Verse 34, Lines 33-48[6]
References
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 8 - "Exodus"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 9 - "Hidden Hope"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 10 - "Time of Darkness"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 13 - "Clan Society"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 12 - "Birth of the Clans"
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 18 - "Clan Trials"
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